As we all know, Silk Road provided a cultural and commercial link between half of mankind, joining East and West and provided a constantly moving pathway for goods and ideas, peoples and entertainment. Between Changan and the Mediterranean, it passed through many diverse peoples and lands, which today include at least 13 countries, each with its own official language. Was there a universal lingua franca? Or did traders and cameleers employ interpreters, or resort to sign languages?

Language Truth on Silk Road
For talking about various guessing, the reality of language on Silk Road is clearly merchants and caravaneers have employed both sign language and the use of an interpreter, whenever and wherever necessary. And while there was no universal language employed between the Mediterranean and the Yellow River Valley, certain languages were more useful and more widely spoken than others.

Nation Languages during Silk Road Period
Earlier in the ancient times, China is unchanging political entity along the route of Silk Road. Chinese generally the Putonghua or common speech of Beijing and North China is known as Mandarin in the West. Other languages spoken along the easternmost stretch of the Silk Road include Mongol and Tibetan, neither of which would have been possible exception of Mongol during the Yuan Dynasty. At the earliest ancient times, the Greek and later Latin were the lingua franca of the Mediterranean world and the Levant. During the time of Alexander the Great, and under the Graeco-Bactrian Kingdoms in south and central Asia, no doubt Greek functioned as a language trade - with Greek letters used on coinage minted in Bactra and other distant outposts of the Greek world.

Tongues on Silk Road
Finally, mention should be made of more recent additions to the languages of the Silk Road - Tongues. It would be little heard or not at all, when the traditional Silk Road was at its peak, but which now serves as useful international languages the length of the Silk Road modern equivalent. The first is the Russian and second is English.

Silk Road is just like a culture world where all the human beings civilization promoted step by step. It is a treasure decoration all the national process!